kzalloc may fails, pdata might be null and it may cause null pointer dereference later. Signed-off-by: Kang Chen <void0red@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c index 6eb4085a3..54134d782 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c @@ -7291,6 +7291,8 @@ lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read(struct lpfc_hba *phba) /* Find out if the FW has a new set of congestion parameters. */ len = sizeof(struct lpfc_cgn_param); pdata = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!pdata) + return -ENOMEM; ret = lpfc_read_object(phba, (char *)LPFC_PORT_CFG_NAME, pdata, len); -- 2.34.1